Zolgar: If you'd like to reproduce the flavour of tabletop role-playing, complete with a DM who is out to kill you repeatedly, you should try BG.
BreathingMeat: Ha! Imagining BG as a jerky DM:
DM: OK the actress suddenly turns into a witch and attacks you! Roll initiative!
Player: *rolls* I got 12.
DM: The witch initiated combat so she gets a surprise round. She casts a spell on you. *rolls* *rolls* *rolls* You take 25 points damage.
Player: What the balls? I'm only level 1! I've got, like, eight hit points!
DM: Well then you're DEAD! I win, lewzor! *fap* *fap* You got completely owned! *fap*
Player: This is bullshit.
DM: You shouldn't have taken the bodyguarding job. You need to be at least level 4 to do that quest. Ha! *fap* I completely wasted you! *fap*
Player: How was I supposed to know that?
DM: *fap* I can't hear you, Dead Mouth! *fap* *fap* *fap*
Player: This sucks arse. OK I'll try again from before I took the job.
DM: What? You're dead. You can't do anything! That's your guy there all over the cobblestones and the walls! *fap* On, like, minus seventeen hit points! You're going to need to roll up a new character.
Player: Yeah, but I saved. Remember when I said "I save"? So now I load from there.
DM: What is this? You can't "save" and "load"!
Player: Either I load from before I took the job, or I leave your stale-smelling basement and spend the rest of my evening with my girlfriend.
DM: No, you have to roll up a new character. But I'll be kind: I'll let you start in Beregost. Even though it completely ruins the integrity of the story.
Player: You have man-boobs; Amy has girl-boobs. Good night, Duncan.
DM: OK fine, you can "load". Cheater.
Or you could of just paused to gain initive, and then used imeons magic missle or xzars ldrain to disrupt the lightninig bolt.. monty can move in for a back stab by that time anyway.. .. : )
